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  1. Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia

    By Armine Ishkanian

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process. It argues that, contrary to the expectations of Western aid donors, who promoted civil society on the assumption that democratization would follow from the...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Transnational Studies Reader

    Intersections and Innovations

    Edited by Peggy Levitt, Sanjeev Khagram

    In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have traditionally focused on the nation-state as the central defining framework, transnational studies views social experience as...

    Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge

  3. Philanthropy in England

    Series: Routledge Library Editions

    In these works Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England. He is concerned with the momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as reflected in the charities which...

    Published August 30th 2006 by Routledge

  4. Critical Realism and Housing Research

    By Julie Lawson

    Series: Ontological Explorations

    Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and...

    Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge

  5. Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History

    By Neville Morley

    Series: Approaching the Ancient World

    Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history. Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret historical evidence for themselves, as well as to evaluate the work of others, the book includes a survey...

    Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge

  6. Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology

    By Kirsten Campbell

    Series: Transformations

    This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psychoanalytic social theory. Campbell's work offers answers to the important contemporary question of...

    Published May 12th 2004 by Routledge

  7. The Age of Chance

    Gambling in Western Culture

    By Gerda Reith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    This fascinating and extensive study, enlivened by interviews with British and American gamblers, will be enthralling reading not just for those interested in the cultural and social implications of gambling - researchers in sociology, cultural studies and the history of ideas - but for anyone...

    Published January 16th 2002 by Routledge

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